A Study on the Design Supporting System for Cylinder Using Pro/PROGRAM

Though the cylinder shape is similar, the shape of the cylinder changes from model to model. Therefore the time consuming procedure of forming cylinder should be repeated for every type of cylinders. Consequently, a new design system is highly demanded to reduce those undesirable time. In this study a 3-D cylinder design supporting system has been developed using Pro/PROGRAM of the widespread CAD software Pro/ENGINEER. With the input geometric data of piston, tube, cover, this 3-D design supporting system could complete the basic design process. This new design system showed remarkable design efficiency also when it was applied to the case of redesign and modification of the previous standard output for a different cylinder type.